Fabric for sweat-bands for hats and other uses



Arena REINHOLD LAN STROM, OF OAKLEY, OHIO.

FABRIC FOR SWEAT-BANDS FOR HATS AND OTHER USES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 233,629, dated October 26, 1880.

Application filed April 7,1880. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REINHOLD LANS'IROM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakley, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fabrics for Sweat-Bands for Hats and other uses; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Thisinvention relates to an improved method of constructing sweatbands for hats and other similar articles, where a very thin and flexible fabric is desired, to prevent the permeation of perspiration from the human body to articles of wearing-apparel; and to this end it consists in a fabric formed by uniting a thin lamina ot' mica to a'backing of paper or other fabric by applying to a sheet of mica a sheet of fibrous or textile material and uniting the two by any suitable adhesive cement or varnishsuch as shellac-varnish, for instanceand separatinga lamina from the sheet of mica by stripping off the cemented fabric, as more fully hereinafter specified.

In carrying out my invention I take a sheet of ordinary mica, which consists of a series of thin laminated sheets, and cement to one of the faces thereof a backing of fibrous or textile material, a strong quality of paper being preferable for the purpose. The cementing material that I have found most convenient in practice consists, preferably, of an insoluble varnish-such, for instance, as shellac dissolved in alcohol. The textile or fibrous backing is saturated with the varnish and applied to the face of the mica sheet, and when the cement or varnish has become thoroughly dry and the two firmly united the textile or fibrous fabric is stripped off of the sheet, carrying a thin lamina of the mica with it, which renders the combined fabric utterly impervious to moisture, and at the same time leaves it in a sufficiently pliable and flexible condition to be employed as a sweat-band for hats and sweat-impervious linings for various portions of articles of clothing, such as linings for the armpits and other parts of wearingapparel, instead of the oiled silk usually employed for'such purposes, which soon becomes soft and soluble under the influences of the natural heat and perspiration given 0E from the human body. 4

It is evident that the improved fabric, as manufactured according to the above-described method, is applicable to various other uses besides those above specifically mentioned, and hence I do not limit myself to any particular use to which it may be applied; and, therefore,

What I claim is The method herein described of manufacturin g sweat-impervious fabrics for the sweatbands for hats and other articles of clothing, the same consisting in uniting to a sheet of mica a sheet of fibrous or textile material by means of a suitable cement, and separating the said fibrous or textile fabric from the mica, so as to carry away a thin lamina from the same, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

REINH OLD LANSTROM.

- \Vitnesses:

J. H. HOOVER, E. J. FRAsIER. 

